NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of entities that oppose all kinds of REDD*.
*(Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation).
News & Updates
Resounding The Alarm Against False Solutions
FOREST CARBON DIALOGUE – The truth behind Carbon Offsets In a first of its kind, highly interactive and engaging dialogue, the No REDD in Africa Network in collaboration with Health of Mother Earth Foundation held a Forest Carbon dialogue tagged The truth behind...
NRAN stands with WACMo to Reinforce Resistance Against False Climate Solutions
The No REDD in Africa Network participated in a meeting held on 15th July 2025, with over 100 participants - civil society leaders, grassroots activists, and environmental justice advocates - from ten countries, including Burkina Faso, Ghana, Mali,...
Deconstructing and Debunking False Solutions: REDD+ and Carbon Markets in Africa
African natural resources and biodiversity are being promoted as central tools of the market-based solutions to the current environmental crisis, particularly through REDD+ and the production of carbon credits. The recently created African Carbon Markets Initiative...
Deconstructing and Debunking New Forms of Green Colonialism.
The No REDD in Africa network on 31st March 2025 held a webinar to mark the 2025 International day of Forest with the theme Forest and Food and also to discuss a topical research carried out by the network. The critical aim of this webinar was to clearly expose...
False solutions Fueling Green Colonialism,COP29 and the REDD+ deception
NRAN decries COP29 as a failure , insisting that the newly added language of new collective quantified goals (NCQG) is just another ploy of the global north and transnational corporations to avoid bearing responsibility for their unchecked emissions which have caused...
MOBILIZING TO CHALLENGE POWER FOR SAFETY AND EQUITY IN NIGERIA
Interview with Nnimmo Bassey, Health of Mother Earth Foundation (HOMEF) Executive Director, Nigeria In a riveting conversation, Nnimmo Bassey, a renowned activist, architect, poet, and pastor, delves into his transformative journey from spearheading Environmental...
About No-REDD
NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation). The NRAN was founded during the World Social Forum, held in Tunis, Tunisia, in March 2013.
Our Areas of Focus
Forests & Biodiversity
Forests are not a mere collection of trees but are complex, biodiverse ecosystems that support human communities, other beings and overall health of the planet. Direct benefits to human communities include the fact that forests are spaces for cultural, spiritual, health, socio-economic and educational activities…
Plantations & Agriculture
Plantations are monocultural collections of trees and crops. Plantations and industrial agriculture are major drivers of deforestation and displacement of human communities. NRAN rejects carbon trading and carbon offsets of any kind by any name including with soils, crops, grasslands, and genetically engineered…
Climate Change
NRAN believes that climate change is a symptom of a systemic failure. The system that drives climate change depends on continuous extraction and burning of fossil fuels, industrial agriculture and over consumption. False solutions are built on principles of market environmentalism and include carbon trading, various types of REDD, Net Zero, decarbonization…
Extractives
Extractive activities continue to cause massive deforestation, destruction of lands, poisoning of water bodies and pollution of lands and the atmosphere. Extractivism equally provokes militarisation and displacement of communities. NRAN supports communities in the defence of their territories, including their right to reject exploitative…
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No-REDD in Africa
NO REDD in Africa Network (NRAN) is a platform of African Civil Society organizations, movements, activists and individuals that oppose all kinds of REDD (Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation).